Wednesday, August 26, 2009

A Silverlight HighlightingTextBlock implemented in Visual Basic

A Silverlight HighlightingTextBlock implemented in Visual Basic

A Silverlight HighlightingTextBlock implemented in Visual Basic

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 01:28 PM PDT

Here's a Visual Basic implementation of HighlightingTextBlock for Silverlight 3....( read more )...(read more)

Creating a highlighting text block for Silverlight 3, revisited

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 12:17 PM PDT

Now that Silverlight 3 has shipped, I'd like to take a moment to revisit the highlighting AutoCompleteBox control that I blogged about back in November of '08, and again earlier this year, thanks to tooling improvements: Expression Blend 3 is out, and...( read more )...(read more)

LINQ to Bing, Silverlight and .NET RIA Services

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 11:20 AM PDT

In my last post, I described BLinq, or LINQ to Bing , an API that allows you use LINQ to access the Bing search results (ok, so perhaps BLinq was not the best of names, given prior art on that name ... but anyway). I also alluded to .NET RIA Services integration, which I'll cover in this installment. In fact, IQueryable and the LINQ pattern lie at the very heart of .NET RIA Services, in allowing developers to access data in a consistent manner not just on client or server but across client and server, and enabling code to compose queries naturally. If you haven't read the intro post, please take the few minutes to check out the LINQ snippets to get a general sense before continuing on. You might use Bing in your rich internet application...(read more)

LINQ to Bing, Silverlight and .NET RIA Services

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 11:20 AM PDT

In my last post, I described BLinq, or LINQ to Bing , an API that allows you use LINQ to access the Bing search results (ok, so perhaps BLinq was not the best of names, given prior art on that name ... but anyway). I also alluded to .NET RIA Services...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight and localizing string data

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 10:09 AM PDT

While I was at the Silverlight Atlanta Firestarter event I had a chance to meet some great people. One of them was Sergey Barskiy . Sergey was doing a session on deployment and while in the speaker area we were chatting about overall feedback on Silverlight Read More......(read more)

Silverlight and localizing string data

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 10:09 AM PDT

While I was at the Silverlight Atlanta Firestarter event I had a chance to meet some great people. One of them was Sergey Barskiy . Sergey was doing a session on deployment and while in the speaker area we were chatting about overall feedback on Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC - Is WebForms the VisiCalc of Web Development?

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 07:41 AM PDT

If you're an "old geek" like me, you remember a number of software products that "changed the world". VisiCalc was THE spreadsheet of the day !  It might have done 2% of what Excel 2010 does, but when it was released it was an AMAZING innovation. And how about DBase II (first released for CP/M) ? It wasn't the first database in the world, nor was it the first programming language, but it was an amazing innovation for the developer of the day that has evolved into forms that the original dBase creators probably never envisioned ! And then there was Turbo Pascal !!!! When I got my first copy of Turbo Pascal it was pure genius. I think I paid $80 for it for my Televideo 802 CP/M machine. Up until then I was coding in assembly. The "C" compiler...(read more)

.NET Unified Data Tier (Devv.Core.UniDataTier)

Posted: 02 Oct 2008 11:07 AM PDT

Devv.Core.UniDataTier is a generic and easy to use data access layer compatible with SQL Server, Oracle, OleDb and ODBC. Support for other databases (MySQL was tested in the early stages) can be easily added using the provided Enum and overloaded methods.

MSDN Live - fall 2009

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 11:44 PM PDT

Microsoft Norway has a tradition for hosting 2 MSDN Live events every year, one in the spring timeframe and one in the fall. This year they're having it in Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim and Oslo. The tour starts is kicked off in Stavanger on the 16th...( read more )...(read more)

VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 10:31 PM PDT

Over the next few months I'm going to be doing a series of posts that talk about some of the cool things coming with the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.  VS 2010 and .NET 4 are the next major releases of our developer tools and framework.  Together...( read more )...(read more)

Clean Web.Config Files (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 10:50 PM PDT

This is the first in a series of blog posts I'm doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today's post is about an admittedly small, but I still think kind of nice, change coming with ASP.NET 4.0: clean, simple, web.config files.  You'll encounter this improvement the first time you do a File->New Project within Visual Studio 2010 and create an empty ASP.NET 4.0 Web application (which is why I thought it might be appropriate to-do as the first post). Web.config files in .NET 3.0 and 3.5 Over the last few releases, the web.config files within new ASP.NET projects have steadily increased in size. For example: the default web.config file that is added to a new web project in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now some 126 lines long, and...(read more)

VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 10:31 PM PDT

Over the next few months I'm going to be doing a series of posts that talk about some of the cool things coming with the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.  VS 2010 and .NET 4 are the next major releases of our developer tools and framework.  Together they contain a ton of new functionality and improvements that I think you'll really like, and which make building applications of all types easier, faster and better.  The improvements range from nice small tweaks to major, major enhancements - and can be found across the .NET Framework, the languages, and the IDE. We are still a little ways off from the "Betat2" release of VS10 and .NET 4 - which is the version I'm going to be basing my posts on.  I wanted to start ahead of the actual...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2009 -- #674

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 08:31 PM PDT

In this Issue: Peter Bromberg , Brad Abrams , Shawn Wildermuth , Page Brooks , Terence Tsang , Vikram Pendse , David Anson , Dan Wahlin , Joel Cochran , and Matthias Shapiro . From SilverlightCream.com : Silverlight IsolatedStorage Compressed Object Cache...( read more )...(read more)

All for that small Drop Down Box – Part 2

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 07:53 PM PDT

Web MultiTargeting (Web MT) for VS 2010 has been a great journey of fine technology and a tons of learning for me in person, I am sure everyone in the team feels very similar (although some may add " + lot of pain " into the mix :-))…  Yesterday, I published some of the details around what Web MT offers web developers in VS 2010… You can read it at: All for that small Drop Down Box – Part 1 I covered approx 10 different features of MultiTargeting in the previous post, today I am going to time box myself to a couple of hours to write as much as I can and then see if we need Part –3 of this series in few more days or not… :-) Anyways, let us get started!! Filtering Markup Intellisense One of the essential benefits of working within IDE like...(read more)

A Plethora of Silverlight Behaviors/Triggers

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 02:06 PM PDT

URL : http://expressionblend.codeplex.com/ It looks like the Expression team is skulking around and releasing code. They've just released a bunch of behaviors on the new Expression Blend Samples CodePlex project. The number of sample behaviors and triggers...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight and Web Analytics – the Next Generation

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 09:59 AM PDT

  Ever since I wrote about Silverlight and Web Analytics (and PDF here ) with Silverlight 1, I have been meaning to update the document and guidance for Silverlight 2 and now Silverlight 3.  There are some new features in Silverlight 3 and Expression...( read more )...(read more)
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